A novel for Grownups

[supergee]

Middlemarch Revisited [LitHub]

Comments

[athenais]

This is a very good article you've linked to. I'm glad I read it for the insights it gives to a novel I absolutely loathe. But I gave up Eliot after Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss.

[weofodthignen]

If it was supposed to make us understand everyone's viewpoint, rather than sneering at everyone except that self-absorbed youngster who wrecks others' lives and cannot even appreciate the importance of her husband's research to him, then it fails spectacularly. Perhaps appropriate that Henry James liked it, him of the fantastically high-flown rhetoric revealing nothing except his unexplained biases.

I hope both are rotting very slowly in their graves.